The Master Fryer Ltd

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  rupertus

  ·1 month ago

  “the legend himself gave me my chips for free”

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  Rob Page

  ·8 months ago

  “Decent fish and chips. Cash only. Easy parking in front of the shop. Pretty varied menu. Chips options are pretty generous - one large chips will feed three people. Allow extra time for most orders as they're cooked to order.”

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  Piotrek Pankiewicz

  ·9 months ago

  “Cod and chips better than anywhere else.”

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  Charles Burns

  ·11 months ago

  “I'm a regular customer here. Always friendly. Everything you need from a local chippy.”

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  Alpha Barrie

  ·11 months ago

  “Great food nice fish and chips hot and crispy the food was good and hot filled me nicely 👍”

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  Richard Page

  ·1 year ago

  “Piping hot chips and plenty of them, high quality big cod serving. Excellent. Cash only. Update 01SEP25: Been again. Piping hot chips and high quality big cod again! Consistent quality which is great!”

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  Iestyn Dixon

  ·2 years ago

  “Don't normally come here as our chippy is closed for a week. Fish was OK. Chips weren't the greatest. I wasn't asked for salt and vinegar so handed the bags. When got home they definitely needed it! Mushy peas were watered down! Why! It's peas not caviar!”

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  Neil Jarvis

  ·4 years ago

  “A disappointing experience at The Master Fryer in Emmer Green tonight. A refusal to serve me chips that were hot. I paid for some chips and when the guy opened the storage section, it was clear that all that was left was the last section of that batch. He had to scrape the scoop across the bottom of the section to get the chips out. Foreseeing that they may have been sat there for a while, I asked if they’d be cold. He said they are fresh and would be hot. Once in a bag, I touched a chip and it was barely even warm. I politely asked if he could make a fresh, hot batch. He refused to do so and offered me just a refund. He insisted this batch of chips was hot and only made a few minutes before. When I asked him numerous times to touch the chip to show what I meant, he continually refused to do so and just insisted they were hot. The batch had clearly not just been made. Aside from them being cold, they would not, being a Friday night, make a fresh batch of a small amount like that. He continued to refuse to serve hot chips and gave me a refund. No doubt those cold chips went back into the storage to be served to another paying customer. Before anyone jumps down my throat and says “It’s only chips - what’s the big deal?’ … the issue isn’t the chips, it’s the very poor customer service. Refusing to provide what a customer is paying for and denying there’s an issue when there clearly is, just to save a matter of pennies. Could I not just have heated it up once home? Of course. But I’d planned to eat them on the way home.”

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  Cathryn Stewart (The Glama Mama)

  ·6 years ago

  “When we first moved to caversham park village this was the best chip shop for miles. Then in the last 3 years it has really gone down hill. Food is regulary warm not hot. Chips are either under or over cooked, and the fish is often saturated in oil . Tonight they messed up our order, and we only discovered when we got home. Not happy as two adults had to share one portion of food!! Shame as it used to be an awesome chip shop not any more!”

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  Nicolas Povall

  ·6 years ago

  “It’s all about the fish — serving a fairly decent range — and as a consequence seems to deal only in the freshest of the stuff. It really shows in the flaky, moist and sweet-tasting cod that gently steams within a light but crunchy batter. The chips are very decent too, the guy that serves always comes across as a quite a grumpy chap but he is doing a fine job”

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